Needles in the 'Sheet'stack: Augmented Analytics to get Insights from Spreadsheets
This addresses the challenge for business users lacking database expertise, but it appears incremental as it builds on existing BI tools like QuickInsights and SpotIQ.
The paper tackles the problem of extracting insights from periodic spreadsheets without prior knowledge of schema or data, targeting users unfamiliar with database analytics, and demonstrates a solution for automated insight generation.
Business intelligence (BI) tools for database analytics have come a long way and nowadays also provide ready insights or visual query explorations, e.g. QuickInsights by Microsoft Power BI, SpotIQ by ThoughtSpot, Zenvisage, etc. In this demo, we focus on providing insights by examining periodic spreadsheets of different reports (aka views), without prior knowledge of the schema of the database or reports, or data information. Such a solution is targeted at users without the familiarity with the database schema or resources to conduct analytics in the contemporary way.